April 5 in the Tretyakov Gallery opens a retrospective of paintings by Zinaida Serebryakova This is the largest exhibition of the famous artist over the past 30 years. The previous one took place here in 1986, and the earliest and most complete-in 1965 in the exhibition hall on the Kuznetsk bridge, during the Serebryakova’s life, which, due to the illness, could not come to her from Paris, where she lived in forced emigration.

Architect and artist Eugene Ass that he reads for a buzz and what books occupy him from the point of view of the history of the development and culture of cities I usually read early in the morning, from 6 to 7 hours, I do it slowly and carefully. A stack of books lies next to the bed, and I choose from the mood: I can read 4-5 books at the same time. I have a complex relationship with fiction, so basically these are books, one way or another related to my specialty.

100 years ago, the Provisional Government officially canceled the Pale of Settlement and other discriminatory restrictions for Jews A few days after the February Revolution, a telegram from a police officer from the Poltava province entered the office of the capital's mayor: “Is it possible for a merchant of the Third Guild Tsiperovich to come to Petrograd for a week?” The newly appointed assistant to the mayor ordered to answer as follows: “To such and such.

On April 4, Andrei Tarkovsky would have turned 85 years old. The Mosfilm film studio posted his films in free access on YouTube. What you need to know about the director who came up with modern cinema, and with what eyes to watch his films now? Too much has been written about Tarkovsky - and at the same time nothing. They write about his marriages and novels, friends and enemies, problems with Goskino and personal crises. About allusions and metaphors, about picturesque rhymes.

Why are ultra -right ideas so attractive? Today, in connection with the publication in several countries, including in Russia, parts of the Black Notebooks - in the essence of the diaries of the great German philosopher Martin Heidegger, debugged with renewed vigor about his connection with Nazism. In March of this year, the 90th anniversary of the release of Heidegger - “Genesis and Time” was also fulfilled.